03-21-2018, 10:35 AM
Ok, thanks for the pages as always! this is a wonderful site when on a desktop, which i am now. been viewing from my phone (bad) so anyway monday i got underneath and starting inspecting like a dog sniffing out a bunny turd to eat. (my dog is gross) and s spotted both atf cooler lines. both of them are bone dry and not very rusted as you suspected. lines and where they thread in, all dry. next i looked up into the torque converter inspection hole. bone dry., yes i have the heavy distributor seal oil leak running down the bell house, looks very cruddy like its been leaking for years and years and years.. also noticed a nice oil soaked/swelled coolant hose on the back on the engine that i now have to replace (oil+coolant hose=tow bill).. il get to that later., the oil is obvious its oil., i stuck my finger into the tc hole and felt around. nothing red or really wet. just old cruddy oil remnents., i moved to the transfer case looking for an inspection hole??? nothing there. at all anywhere. unless you must remove the cross member and t-case mount and remove something else? but there are absolutely no inspection holes or covers anywhere accessible. so i moved on. i re-checked my TCC connector (remember i replaced the O ring on that). finger poking turns up nothing red or wet, just dist o ring old crud., as im looking around... i notice again.. same as every time that the pan gasket edge is soaked with bright red fluid allll the way around. nothing new there.. so i looked at the modulator. the base of it is wet. (but so isnt the pan gasket above it and alll the way around..)i figured while i was looking at the modulator, may as well pull the hose off and see if its leaking.. tug..tug..tug.. nothing.. ok the steel line is bolted to the top of the trans with a 12mm nut on a stud. since i was up digging for a microscopic ratchet and socket i decided to use my mighty vac at the nipple on the back of the intake that pulls vac on the modulator, disconnect hose, attach vac.. pump pump pump pump pump.. wont build vac at all. OK we have a vac leak!! (this will be updated to my last long thread when i said i had no vac leaks lol), so then i got under, unbolted the 12mm nut.. stud came out with it and fell into the abyss (it will stay there), i disconnected the line from the mod, no fluid came out. i connected my mighty vac directly to modulator, pump pump pump. holds 25in of vac no problem!, i replaced both rubber (cracked) hoses and remove/cleaned screw in vac port on intake., retested vac at intake hose. we now have vac that holds! so im not sure what that modulator does.. but it was getting ZERO vacuum for who knows how many years (ive owned the kick 5 months) OK back to the leak, got side tracked as i ALWAYS do. ok i shift my attention to the still leaking shift shaft seal (remember i replaced that O ring too) but the shaft is slightly rusty. doesnt matter. the SSS could not cause the sort of leak that i have. im talking put a bucket under it and pour the leaked fluid back into the trans kind of leak (i dont do that) you cant watch it leak.. but in 2 days of sitting the puddle is 1 foot by 1 foot easy. Ok so back at it. i looked at the dip stick tube, which is right above the SSS and i felt up there and it was red wet. BUT the SSS is leaking.. so that could be from the SSS.. either way i figured that ive already covered the 10 leaks. i may as well pull the dip stick tube and replace the O ring., so i did. not a bad job. the 12mm bolt is in a cunty spot but not bad. now what WAS bad. these dip sticks dont use an O ring but rather they use a case grommet... uggh. surprisingly the rubber was very soft and flexible. although i could NOT get it out! being afraid i was going to drop it in (even tho it has a large collar) i gave up and just coated the outside of the grommet and dipstick tube in alot of Hondabond. Yea i feel a little dirty about that.. but hey.. most would just let it leak. i let it dry over night, the next day i drove it about 15 miles... pretty hard i might add., now a day later it is bone dry (i had cleaned it off before sealing the dip tube.) its still dry. no leaks at all. BUT not so fast. its done this to me 5 times!!! every time i though i fixed the leak, it went days of being bone dry then all the sudden.. puddle.. i plan to drive it every day for the next few weeks., my 08 Accord coupe V6 6speed will be missed during this period lol. nothing like going from a stock 13 second car to an Auto sidekick with big O giant tires on it.